When people in the comments are going on about how "posts like this are shoving atheism down my throat" I just laugh. That is a completely off base statement. All this post is doing is providing a POV from an atheist, really. You know what shoving down someone's throat is? Constantly bullying your way into legislature, influencing laws, restricting the rights of others you don't agree with, based on your faith. Next time you see someone go on about how atheists try to shove it down someone's throat, remember that atheists are not the ones forcing bans on gay marriage, birth control, covering up child pedo preists...... no, they are, however, trying to make sure that our government remains secular, you know, as america was supposed to be?

Your post is almost as offensive as the anti Christian post put up here. You base your logic on people do it to me so I do it to them. Not very mature is it? The catholic church is against gay marriage because it doesnt go with our beliefs. I personally say let them have their civil partnership. Just dont force churches to marry them. The pedo thing, dont eben go there. Yeah there are a few rotten apples. But in the US there are plenty of child abuse cases from gym teachers to neighbors. Dont keep feeding the ********* that is this post.

Uhm, sacramental marriage != legal marriage. gay marriage only applies to the legal, government-provided, civil marriage. In no way whatsoever do people want to force chuches to give the "holy and sacramental" marriage to gays, heck, it is not even legally binding. The marriage taken under a justice of peace.. however...

Furthermore, might I just add that the catholic church is the one entity that is doing whatever it can to hide and protect the pedo priests? So yeah, it is not just "one few rotton apples" I am afraid...

Yeee k lad. Somehow religious people have a right to give their opinion on atheists and we can't do the same? Nope, I stand behind what I said. If you believe in an invisible man, living in the sky then really... go shoot yourself in the face.

You didn't give an opinion, you spat out an insult. If you'd like to discuss things in a mature manner you'll be respected. If you simply want to come bash on different groups, you can **** right off, troll.

you can sum up all athiests into a few simple groups...
1 people that just dont care about religon, ever
2 people that can actually have a proper conversation reguarding religon due to their respect for others
3 the A holes like the guy im replying to that makes everyone look bad. (it happens whenever their is a group)

these are basic generalizations but you get the idea... pic related to the type 3 scum im replying to

atheism basically breaks down to "no religion". it is a lack of belief, because belief in a negative, as you have proposed, is ******* stupid. i dont believe in any of the religions that have been proposed to me. Due to this failure on their part, I do not believe that a god exists. I'm not saying that i believe there is no god. there is a difference. also, sorry about commenting on this old post, i just want you to have an accurate representation of what atheists (don't) believe. :) pm me if you would like to discuss things with an atheist who's not an asshole about it.

I think the point he's trying to make is that if you believe that no God exists, i.e. you are atheist, then you are essentially saying you believe that something arose from nothing. If you think I am mistaken in this assumption, please let me know what anyone who doesn't believe that God created the World thinks in contrast.

i like to think that some "great unknown entity" used the known/unknown laws of the universe in order to create the world we know... thus mixing religion and scientology sucessfully. is everyone satisfied?

This is potentially the biggest douchebag post I've ever seen on FJ. It's not funny, its just shoving Atheism down the throats of FJers. And you still complain about Christians forcing their religion on you.

Firstly, you're saying that as if every single atheist is like that.
Secondly, it's actually fairly annoying speaking to someone who's somehow reached such a level of stupidity that you could explain to them perfectly the evidence behind the fact of evolution and even tell them where they can find more about it for themselves, and they suddenly come up with some more bullcrap or just raise their hand and leave. It's pathetic to be that stupid, and it's hurting the human species. Now, I can honestly swear I've never said this before, but religion truly does have to end, for the good of our species.

Agreed. Not only is it harmful to free thought (and mankind), it's ultimately pointless.

Religion was created by man to explain things like life, death, purpose. All the unanswered questions that they didn't have the technology to find the answers to. But now, we are more advanced, we can answer more and more questions asked since the beginning of man, even if it is a slow process.

Since we can do all of that, what do we need religion for anymore? It just seems like a primative idea.

Also, religion has to end? I guess we can't allow smart people to enjoy something just because some dumb people are very vocal about their beliefs then. We may as well get rid of all the art and philosophies it inspired/created too, because that's stupid for humans. You're blowing religion way out of proportion, dude. Getting rid of something isn't going to magically fix everything.

Well, you can easily say that there are an afterlife without us having any proof against it, like you cant dissaprove my pet beeing a 12 feet tall invisible dinasour.

But if you look at the brain for a sec, the brain has a certain spot in the middle it's the area that gathers information for what we see, feel and hear, it is the spot for conciousness, when you die your heart stops, your blodflow to the brain carrying oxygen stops aswell leaving your brain incapable of reading any information from anything, you are stone dead, you dont see anything, feel anything or hear anything.

I think that a lot of people on the internet perceive religious people as inherently less intelligent and attack and berate them more than they would in real life. I don't think that anyone "knows" what happens after death, no one, not athiests, christians ect. I personally believe thats its more likely that death does not lead to an afterlife set forth by one of the 3 dozen religions on earth, and I assume most athiests do too.

I think it isn't necessarily animosity for theists, but rather the detrimental effects it can have on the progression of humanity as a whole. I.e Crusades, inquisitions, suppression of scientific evidence that disproves the church, etc.

You're employing the logical fallacy of the confusion of origin. Atheism didn't cause Stalin to do that, rather his insanity did. Atheism doesn't teach to send christians to work camps or outright kill them. The Pope ordered things like The Crusades.